Prefab paid for twice over in rent [fingal-independent.ie]
- Published: 20 January 2010
THE Department of Education has spent almost €120,000 renting a prefabricated classroom at a Swords primary school over the last decade, which could have been purchased twice over at the same cost. The full-size prefab at Holy Family Senior National School in River Valley has been rented since February 2000 for €11,634.48 a year, bringing the total figure to €116,344.80.
A further € 18,000 has been spent leasing a second unit since 2006, prompting fierce criticism from one opposition TD, who labelled the spending 'a shocking waste of taxpayers' money'. 'One prefab costs € 969.55 a month to rent and we've had that nearly 10 years,' principal Terry McGinty told the Fingal Independent. ' That prefab would have been paid for at least twice over had it been purchased.
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